HP HyperVisor, SAN, and Switches needed replacement. Received quotes on HP replacement and SCALE Hyper Converged Solution. Looking at price, flexibility, supportability, services, and ease of administration. SCALE won on all accounts.

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Upgraded switch technology. Migrated eight Windows VMs - two with SQL server, and 4.2 TB of data using Double Take Move. Migrated one machine per day with no downtime.

This solution will allow future growth in cores, memory, and data.

Initially concerned about the switch setup since we had a number of VLANs (Guest Wireless, VoIP, CItrix Access Gateway, and the new SCALE backbone VLAN. Turned out to be a non issue as I had a consultant help with the setup of the new switches (which SCALE does not do)

Also, initially concerned if AppAssure and eFolders Continuity Cloud could continue to be my backup and Disaster Recovery solution. No one from Scale, Dell, eFolders, SpiceWorks could tell me if it would work, so I guess we were the guinea pig. It worked. :)

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We have been running for about a month. The product was just what I was looking for and the support has been great. Clones and snapshots are the real thing. Security enhancements are needed to provide more robust administration of the system.